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September 28, 2005
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Focus
Songwriter's lead
single ‘Blackout’
keeps climbing charts
Mashonda
Soulful singer/songw riter M ashonda will
make her album debut with "January Joy” on
Oet. 18. W ith a discography that would make
any R&B debutante blush, M ashonda has re
m ained m ostly a behind-the-scenes force until
now.
M ashonda is established as a w ell-know n,
respected songw riter within music industry circles
as the driving force behind hooks in E ve’s "G otta
M an" and Jay-Z ’s "G irl’s Best Friend.”
H er album ’s lead single, “ B lackout,” featuring Snoop
Dogg, is a bouncy, dance-floor rattling track set to becom e
a party anthem . M ashonda em braces her fellow music
contemporaries by collaborating on the album with Grammy-
aw ard w inners Kanye W est and Raphael Saadiq, as well
as hip-hop stars Jadakiss and Nas.
Debuts
with
‘January
Joy’
Marimba band Eurimba
help top off the feast.
Listen to lively music show cas
ing
A fro -re g g a e ,
Iris h
stepdancing, Japanese taiko d ru m
m ing, H aw aiian so u n d s, L atin
salsa. D ixieland, N ative A m erican
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Tillamook Hosts Seafood Festival
H as it been aw h ile since
you’ve eaten some delectable
seafood?
T he N orth C oast S eafood
Festival is com ing up on Oct. 1
and 2 at the T illam ook County
Fairgrounds, in a celebration of
cultural diversity featuring styles
o f m usic, food and art from all
over the world.
Most than 20 upscale restau
rants and caterers will be on hand
w ithjam balaya, crab cakes, seafood
fettuccine, shrimp cocktail, scampi,
sushi, sm oked oysters and salmon,
and clam chowder. Desserts and
Tillam ook ice cream, along with O r
egon m icrobrews and wineries, will
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dance, sw ing, and hip-hop.
A variety o f Oregon artists
w ill also show case stained
glass, woodcarvings, ceram
ics, glass floats, jew elry, paint
ings, sculptures, fiber arts and
baskets.
The festival runs Saturday,
Oct. 1 from 10a.m. to9p.m .and
Sunday, Oct. 2 from 10 a.m. to
5 p.m. Admission is $6 adults
on Saturday, $5 on Sunday and
$4 for Seniors and children ages 6
to 12. All admission proceeds will
benefit art literacy programs in
T illam ook County Elem entary
Schools. For inform ation, visit
northcoastseafoodfestival.com .
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Hip-Hop Pioneers Celebratedby VH1
Show's performers
include LL Cool J,
Salt ‘N Pepa
(AP) - LLCool J wore his Kangol
hat. Big Daddy Kane broke out the
old-school rhymes and dance moves,
an d S a lt ‘N P ep a rap p e d and
sashayed 1 i ke back i n the day as V HI
celebrated rap's pioneers at the sec
ond annual “Hip-Hop Honors.”
“ It’s som ething that docum ents
hip-hop history, and I’m glad to be
a part o f it," said Big D addy K aneof
the evening.
He received the night’s biggest
ovation Thursday with his sizzling
p erfo rm an ce o f his c lassic hit
"W arm It U p.”
The show feted Kane, Ice-T, LL
Cool J, Salt 'N Pepa, G randm aster
Flash and the Furious Five, the late
N otorious B.I.G. and the movie
“ Boyz N the H ood.”
H ip-hop's new generation cam e
o u tto h o n o rth eeld ers: Nelly, w ear
ing early LL Cool J gear, rapped
“I'm Bad," then performed withCiara
on LL C ool J ’s sexy sm ash, “D oin’
It” ; K anye W est and Ludacris re
cited N otorious B .I.G .’s hits as his
w idow . Faith Evans, sang.
But it w as old school-m eets-old
school when Salt ‘N Pepa reunited
to perform their hit "W hatta M an.”
They were joined onstage by En
Vogue, the ’90s R&B quartet w ho
h adn’t perform ed together in years.
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LL Cool J arrives at the VH1 Hip Hop Honors show in New York
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October 1-2 Tillamook County Fairgrounds
MUSIC AND DANCE FROM
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Il multi-cultural celebration of animals,
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